I’m talking about very specific moments, for example I still have some really strong memories from when I was 10 (is 30+ now) and they are so strong that it almost feel like I’m there when I think about it. The thing is that they re not any special moments and could just be some regular day to day activity or play.
At the same time I had whole trips with the family, reunions, funerals, etc that feels like a lot bigger moments or milestones that I don’t remember at all.
So what makes the brain remember some moments more than other?
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Not a scientist but I heard that depression actually affects your memory. So as a result, personally for me I remember a lot of the bad or traumatic times VS. I forget happy moments much more often. Also embarrassing memories seem to be stronger, but we fixate on those more
For some reason, the brain’s electrical connections are bigger and stronger for that particular memory. The brain kept sending those signals and strengthened the connection. You could recreate it by consciously remembering a point now and continue to dwell on it and think about it for 20 years and it will have the same effect.
Brain is one of the greatest mysteries yet to be discovered. However, it was said that brain tend to remember the things that are well connected; like if our memory is connected to specific scent, place or strong feelings such as (embarrassing memories etc…) they tend to remember it more than the insignificant ones. Also brain tends to remember memories when they’re repeated over and over again either in real life or in our minds. That’s why students are advised to keep studying their subjects many times to memorize it ( same implies to certain memory in your brain, you keep recalling it and that’s why it’s stuck there). At the end we don’t forget things it’s all there inside our magnificent brain but the trick is how to recall it.
There might be something you don’t quite understand about yourself. That is to say, what seems highly insignificant might have some roundabout connection to something deeply important to you. We have to make a lot of decisions about the world when we’re little. How did you feel about it then? How do you feel about it now?
We don’t know. The way things are going, we probably can’t know. Even if we one day figure out the biochemical or electronic impulse stimuli associated with different memory “strength,” that will probably still not be very useful insight.
Not a scientist but I heard that depression actually affects your memory. So as a result, personally for me I remember a lot of the bad or traumatic times VS. I forget happy moments much more often. Also embarrassing memories seem to be stronger, but we fixate on those more
There might be something you don’t quite understand about yourself. That is to say, what seems highly insignificant might have some roundabout connection to something deeply important to you. We have to make a lot of decisions about the world when we’re little. How did you feel about it then? How do you feel about it now?
For some reason, the brain’s electrical connections are bigger and stronger for that particular memory. The brain kept sending those signals and strengthened the connection. You could recreate it by consciously remembering a point now and continue to dwell on it and think about it for 20 years and it will have the same effect.
We don’t know. The way things are going, we probably can’t know. Even if we one day figure out the biochemical or electronic impulse stimuli associated with different memory “strength,” that will probably still not be very useful insight.
Brain is one of the greatest mysteries yet to be discovered. However, it was said that brain tend to remember the things that are well connected; like if our memory is connected to specific scent, place or strong feelings such as (embarrassing memories etc…) they tend to remember it more than the insignificant ones. Also brain tends to remember memories when they’re repeated over and over again either in real life or in our minds. That’s why students are advised to keep studying their subjects many times to memorize it ( same implies to certain memory in your brain, you keep recalling it and that’s why it’s stuck there). At the end we don’t forget things it’s all there inside our magnificent brain but the trick is how to recall it.
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